Both the Navy SEALs and Delta Force are SMUs (Special Mission Units) under U.S. And every mission is different, with its own unique obstacles, element of danger, and military strategy. Quantitatively, you can say the amount of training, but in the real world it really boils down to the particular mission at hand. However, to say the Navy SEALs are tougher than Delta Force is an unfair argument because you have to consider just what exactly makes a soldier tougher? They require even more training after their time being "regular" SEALs, including scenarios like parachuting from 30,000 feet in order to gain control of a hijacked cruise liner.īased on what I've reported here, one might think that Navy SEALs - particularly Team 6/DEVGRU - would be the tougher of the two when comparing them to Delta Force they have more intense training (that we know about), and were even created in response to one of Delta Force's botched missions. Team 6 is so superior to the already stellar SEALs that they've branched out and became DEVGRU, the U.S. (SEAL Team 2 specializes in arctic combat, for example.) But if we are trying to compare the toughest with the toughest, we have to talk about SEAL Team 6, the "all-star team" of SEALs formed as an alternate elite unit after Delta Force failed at rescuing the hostages in Iran. Navy SEALs are organized into Teams 1 to 5 and 7 to 10, some of them with a specialty beyond their already intelligent and deadly skill set. Only about half of the candidates survive training, thus filtering out the incapable. They must also go through a grueling test of endurance during "Hell week" trainees must run, swim in cold water, and crawl through mud almost non-stop for almost six days, with only a total of four hours sleep.
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Special Operations Forces.Īccording to The New York Times, Navy SEALs must train for at least six months before deployment, including dealing with free fall and underwater scenarios, demolition training, and engaging in hostage and terrorist simulations. Since then, the Navy SEALs have evolved into a formidable and revered unit on their own, and is now a part of U.S.
Navy to parallel the Army's Green Berets, when tasked to infiltrate and disable enemy jungle camps during the Vietnam War. Created by President Kennedy in 1962, the Navy SEALs emerged from the elite of the U.S. Navy SEALs, like Delta Force, are super soldiers specially trained for unconventional warfare, reconnaissance, and counter-terrorism operations on SEa, Air and Land (hence their acronym moniker). Sadly, members of the elite Navy SEAL Team 6 were killed when Afghan insurgents shot down a Chinook transport helicopter in August of this year - but that should not take away from their "tough" factor in this article of comparison it should be of note that Delta Force has also had their bad days too, most notably their failed attempt at rescuing 66 American hostages in Iran in 1980, which coincidentally resulted in a fatal helicopter crash.īut I digress. government, as well as everyone else it's hard to ignore their existence when they've been credited - very publicly - as the team behind the killing of terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. Unlike Delta Force, Navy SEALs are officially acknowledged by the U.S.
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